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Submitting your book proposal

If you’re interested in writing a book for UCL Press, then we’d love to hear from you. We welcome proposals for monographs, short monographs, edited collections and textbooks.

Please contact Pat, Chris, Elliot or Dhara with a brief outline of your book so they can assess whether it falls within our scope. If it does, they’ll send you a proposal form to complete.

Our commissioning editors are:

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Pat Gordon-Smith

Commissioning Editor for Education and related social sciences, Archaeology, Heritage, History and Museum Studies, Law, and any related areas

Pat joined UCL Press in 2019, having previously commissioned and managed publications for a number of academic publishers and educational organisations.

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Dhara Snowden

Textbooks Publisher

Dhara joined the team in 2021 and is responsible for commissioning
undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks across a range of subjects,
including Humanities, Social Sciences, STEM and Business. Before
joining the Press, Dhara held editorial roles at Rowman & Littlefield
International, Edinburgh University Press and Bloomsbury Publishing.
She is passionate about research-led teaching and keen to create new
textbooks that support students with hybrid learning.

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Dr Chris Penfold

Senior Commissioning Editor for Anthropology, Built Environment, Development and Sustainability, Modern Languages and Political Science.

Chris has been commissioning books for UCL Press since its launch in 2015.

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Elliot Beck

Commissioning Editor for History, with responsibility for author support across our books programme.

Elliot joined UCL Press in 2023 and has previously held editorial roles at Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press.

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If you’re planning to publish a monograph based on your PhD research, please read the advice on our From thesis to monograph page.

Why publish with UCL Press?
Submitting your book proposal
From thesis to monograph
Peer review
Submitting your manuscript
An introduction to open access licensing
Financing your book
Marketing and social media
Global dissemination and impact
UCL Press AI policy for book authors
UCL Press Books Editorial Policy

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